The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the Resistance we will feel toward pursuing it.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

We come into this world with a specific, personal destiny. We have a job to do, a calling to enact, a self to become. We are who we are from the cradle, and we're stuck with it.

A horse must be a bit mad to be a good cavalry mount, and its rider must be completely so.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.

The more fear we feel about a specific enterprise, the more certain we can be that that enterprise is important to us and to the growth of our soul.

I suggest you give up now. According to my research, in a vampire-werewolf love triangle, the vampire always gets the girl.

The fruit of timidity is neither gain nor loss.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

I trip and I burp and I fart, like everybody else.

Living in war, and being a wartime band, I don't think there's any way that can't somehow influence the songwriting.

You can’t break me because you didn’t make me.

For as long as they praise you, never forget that it is not yet your own path that you walk, but another person's.

Yeah, I mean I'm a water sign. I'm a Pisces.

What was I supposed to say?.....did I tell them the Master had the hots for me, so I'd probably be okay? -Anita

Budo is simply the study of the best ways to kill.